HELLO; FIRST, I TYPE LARGE BECAUSE OF VARIOUS HEALTH & EYE ISSUES. I'VE JUST RENTED YOUR L4D SERVER; INSTALLED METAMOD, SOURCEMOD, THEN I USED FILEZILLA TO UPLOAD MY ADDONS TO THE ADDONS FOLDER ON THE SERVER. NOTHING. I MEAN NOTHING. ALL I CAN PLAY IS PLAIN VANILLA L4D STOCK MAPS. WHEN I OPEN THE FTP URL, IT LISTS ALL OF MY ADDONS. SO THAT'S WHERE IT SETS NOW. I'VE ASKED THE IT GUYS FOR HELP. NO REPLY, YET. I WAS OVER AT abc FOR 6 MONTHS. NEVER GOT TO PLAY MY ADDONS WITH MY GANG. I SPENT ALL THAT TIME TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO OPERATE THE SERVER. THEIR IT PEOPLE FINALLY TOLD ME, THAT I SHOULDN'T HAVE RENTED A GAME SERVER, IF I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO OPERATE A GAME SERVER. SO I'M HERE. I'VE SPENT DAYS SEARCHING THE NET TRYING TO TRACK DOWN EVERY LITTLE BIT OF INFO ON THIS SUBJECT. EVERYTHING I COME ACROSS? POINTS TO L4D2. I CAN'T STAND 2. SO, IF SOME ONE COULD LAY OUT A SEQUENCE OF INSTRUCTIONS, STEP BY STEP? IT'S JUST ME AND FEW FRIENDS WHO LIKE TO PLAY L4D ADDONS. WE'VE PLAYED THE STOCK MAPS, SO WE'RE PRETTY BORED WITH THEM. AT THE MOMENT I ONLY HAVE APPRX 100 ADDONS ON THE SERVER. I PROBABLY HAVE ANOTHER 90 TO PUT ON IF I COULD GET THESE OTHERS TO PLAY. THANK YOU

I'VE SINCE REMOVED ALL OF MY ADDONS. APPARENTLY THEY WERE CAUSING "ISSUES" WITH THE SERVER & GAME. SO NOW I'M BACK TO A VANILLA SERVER. I TRIED ADDING 3 CUSTOM ADDON CAMPAIGN L4D MAPS & PLAYING THEM, BUT ONE OF MY BUDDIES CHARACTER FROZE. SO WE WENT AND MADE A LOCAL SERVER INSTEAD.